diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts
index abda4867324..62ac741f85d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts
@@ -6322,6 +6322,32 @@ describe('createGitHubSlice.fetchWorkItems source/error envelope', () => {
     }
   })
 
+  it('ignores an ineligible SSH repo when every GitHub source is unavailable', async () => {
+    const store = createTestStore()
+    const consoleWarn = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {})
+    mockApi.gh.listWorkItems
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error(GITHUB_WORK_ITEMS_SSH_REMOTE_REQUIRED_MESSAGE))
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('HTTP 503: Service Unavailable'))
+
+    try {
+      const result = await store.getState().fetchWorkItemsAcrossRepos(
+        [
+          { repoId: 'ssh-repo', path: '/server/ssh-repo' },
+          { repoId: 'github-repo', path: '/server/github-repo' }
+        ],
+        24,
+        100,
+        ''
+      )
+
+      expect(result.items).toEqual([])
+      expect(result.failedCount).toBe(1)
+      expect(result.githubUnavailable).toBe(true)
+    } finally {
+      consoleWarn.mockRestore()
+    }
+  })
+
   it('keeps the partial-failure count when another GitHub repo still loads', async () => {
     const store = createTestStore()
     const consoleWarn = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts
index 0aec3ae22fe..5c39a5e5b23 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts
@@ -2866,6 +2866,7 @@ export const createGitHubSlice: StateCreator<AppState, [], [], GitHubSlice> = (s
     const state = get()
     let failedCount = 0
     let unavailableFailureCount = 0
+    let skippedSourceCount = 0
     const perProjectResults = await Promise.all(
       repos.map(async (r) => {
         try {
@@ -2881,6 +2882,7 @@ export const createGitHubSlice: StateCreator<AppState, [], [], GitHubSlice> = (s
           // Why: must use perRepoLimit (not displayLimit) so the cache key
           // matches what fetchWorkItems wrote.
           if (isGitHubWorkItemsSshRemoteRequiredError(err)) {
+            skippedSourceCount += 1
             return [] as GitHubWorkItem[]
           }
           const key =
@@ -2911,10 +2913,12 @@ export const createGitHubSlice: StateCreator<AppState, [], [], GitHubSlice> = (s
     const merged = sortWorkItemsByNumber(perProjectResults.flat()).slice(0, displayLimit)
     // Why: one repo can fail with a 5xx while another succeeds (or fails for a
     // permission reason). Only claim a global availability failure when every
-    // selected repo failed for a GitHub reachability reason; otherwise keep the
-    // exact count.
+    // eligible source failed for a GitHub reachability reason; intentionally
+    // skipped SSH repos are not GitHub sources for this calculation.
     const githubUnavailable =
-      failedCount > 0 && failedCount === repos.length && unavailableFailureCount === failedCount
+      failedCount > 0 &&
+      failedCount === repos.length - skippedSourceCount &&
+      unavailableFailureCount === failedCount
     return { items: merged, failedCount, githubUnavailable }
   },
 
diff --git a/src/shared/github-api-availability.test.ts b/src/shared/github-api-availability.test.ts
index 0d5e459765e..1b104525e46 100644
--- a/src/shared/github-api-availability.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/github-api-availability.test.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ describe('classifyGitHubUnavailable', () => {
       'request to https://api.github.com failed, reason: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND api.github.com',
       'dial tcp: lookup api.github.com: no such host',
       'connect ETIMEDOUT 140.82.112.5:443',
+      'TimeoutError: request aborted',
+      'NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource',
       'fetch failed',
       'socket hang up',
       'could not resolve host: api.github.com',
diff --git a/src/shared/github-api-availability.ts b/src/shared/github-api-availability.ts
index 7af7d1df1d8..b44b1ea4d47 100644
--- a/src/shared/github-api-availability.ts
+++ b/src/shared/github-api-availability.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ const SERVER_ERROR_PATTERN =
 // both Node (ENOTFOUND/ECONNRESET) and the gh Go client ("dial tcp", "i/o
 // timeout", "no such host") shapes.
 const NETWORK_PATTERN =
-  /\btimeout\b|\btimed out\b|\bno such host\b|could not resolve host|could not resolve to a host|\bnetwork\b|\bconnection (?:refused|reset)\b|\bdial tcp\b|\bi\/o timeout\b|\bfetch failed\b|\bsocket hang up\b|ENOTFOUND|ECONNRESET|ECONNREFUSED|ETIMEDOUT|EAI_AGAIN|ENETUNREACH/i
+  /timeout|\btimed out\b|\bno such host\b|could not resolve host|could not resolve to a host|network|\bconnection (?:refused|reset)\b|\bdial tcp\b|\bi\/o timeout\b|\bfetch failed\b|\bsocket hang up\b|ENOTFOUND|ECONNRESET|ECONNREFUSED|ETIMEDOUT|EAI_AGAIN|ENETUNREACH/i
 
 /**
  * Classify a gh/Octokit error message as a GitHub-reachability problem, or